Car-brake.



No. 754,419. PATENTED MAR. 15, 1904.

H. -E. & M. L. BROWN.

GAR BRAKE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 9, 1903. N0 MODEL.

l v 5% 5 5 I UNITED STATES Patented March 15, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT E. BROWN AND MARCUS L. BROWN, OF GOLDTHWAITE, TEXAS.

CARY-BRAKE.

SPEUIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,419, dated March 15, 1904.

Application filed December 9, 1903- Serial No. 184,494. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

' expense of construction and Without increase in the complication of the parts; and the in- Vention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claims.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partially in section, of a railway-car of the car-trucks in common use, and I do not,

therefore,wish to be limited in their use to'any specific form or structure of truck-frame, but reserve the right to their use in connection with any form of truck to which they are adapted.

For the purpose of illustration the devices are shown applied to a conventional form of car-truck, in which represents the central transverse member or bolster, 11 12 the side frames, 1314 the axles mounted for rotation by the usual bearings in the side frames and carrying the traclmvheels 15 1617 l8,as shown.

The improved devices include stirrup-bars 19 of inverted-U shape and disposed near the ends of the bolsterbetween the track-wheels, rigidly riveted to the bolster, as shown. The depending ends of the stirrup-barsa're formed with transverse eyes to which levers 23 24 25 26 are pivotally united, as by spaced ears 27 and pivot-pins 29, it being understood that each lever is provided with similar ears and pivotpins and operating independently. Attached to the lower shorter ends of the levers are the bearings.

brake-shoes 31 32 33 34, the faces of the shoes conforming to both the treads and flanges of the track-wheels, as shown. Attached to the upper portions of the stirrup-bars, as by rivets 35 36, are guard-plates 37 38,extending beyond the bolster 10 and having elongated apertures 39 40 41 42 in the extended portions to provide guides for the upper ends of the levers 23 24 25 26, which extend through the apertures, as shown.

Attached, as by rivets 44 45, to the guard plates 37 38 are brackets 46 47, having their upper ends extended laterally of the bolster,

10 .and terminating in bearings 48 49 fora shaft 50, which is thus mounted rotatively in At the ends of the shaft 50 rocker-arms 51 52are attached and connected by their free ends by rods 53 54 55 56', respectively, with the free upper ends of the levers 23, 24, 25, and 26, as shown.

Connected to the shaft 50 is an operatingarm 57, to which the ordinary brake-rod 58 is connected. The brake-rod will be operated by any of the ordinary means, such as' the brakeshaft, operated by hand or the ordinary airbrakemechanism; but as these form no part of the present invention they are not illustrated, their construction and mode of'Operation being so well known. this simple arrangement it will be obvious that when power is applied to the rod 58 the shaft 50 will be rotated with the result of simultaneously actuating all the levers 23, 24, 25, and 26 and applying the brake-shoes to all the trackwheels uniformly.

I It will be noted that in this construction the transverse beams connecting the opposite shoes and levers are dispensed with and the lateral sway movement effectually prevented by the apertured guard-plates, which accomplish the same results as the beams and in a simpler and more effectual manner.

The means whereby the stirrup-bars, guardplates, and brackets are united together and to the bolster 10 is also an important feature of the invention and adds materially to the value and efficiency of the invention.

The whole device is simple in construction, efficient in action, and will materially increase the safety by decreasing the number of parts usually employed in devices of this character and dispensing with the objectionable transverse brake-beams, which must be disposed relatively close to the rails.

With the improved devices herein described and shown the space below the bolsters is entirely unobstructed, and no danger exists, therefore, of the parts comprising the improvements striking obstructions between the rails.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim is- 1. The combination of a car-truck frame having track-wheels, guide-plates connected transversely of said truck-frame between said wheels and having longitudinal apertures through their ends, levers carrying brakeshoes for bearing against said track-wheels and fulcrumed upon said truck-frame and with their free ends extending through said apertures, and means carried by said truclcframe for simultaneously actuating said levers to apply said brake-shoes.

2. The combination of a car-truck frame having track-wheels, guide-plates connected transversely of said truck-frame between said wheels and having longitudinal apertures through their ends, levers carrying brakeshoes for bearing against said track-wheels and fulcrumed upon said truck-frame and with their free ends extending through said apertures, a shaft mounted for rotation upon said truck-frame and having rocker-arms upon its ends, connecting-rods between said rocker arms and said levers, and means for rotating said shaft.

3. The combination of a car-truck frame having track-wheels, guide-plates connected transversely of said truck-frame between said wheels and having longitudinal apertures through their ends, levers carrying brakeshoes for bearing against said track-wheels and fulcrumed upon said truck-frame and with their free ends extending through said apertures, a shaft mounted for rotation upon said truclcframe and having rocker-arms upon its ends, connecting-rods between said rockerarms and said levers, an arm extending from said shaft for the attachment of the brakerod, and rods connecting said rocker-arms and levers.

4c. The combination of a car-truck frame having spaced track-wheels mounted for rotation therein and with a central transverse member, stirrup-bars of inverted-U shape and embracing said central member between said wheels and having pivot-bearings in their depending ends, guide-plates riveted to the upper portions of said stirrup-bars and extend ing laterally from said central member and with longitudinal apertures in the extended portions, levers fulcrumed upon the bearings in said stirrup-bars and carrying brake-shoes for engagement with said track-whee1s and extending through said apertures, and means for simultaneously actuating said levers to apply said brake-shoes.

5. The combination of a car-truck frame having spaced track-wheels mounted for r0- tation therein and with a central transverse member, stirrup-bars of inverted-U shape and embracing said central member between said wheels and having pivot-bearings in their depending ends, guide-plates riveted to the upper portions of said stirrup-bars and extending laterally from said central member and with longitudinal apertures in the extended portions, levers fulcrumed upon the bearings in said stirrup-bars and carrying brake-shoes for engagement with said track-wheels and extending through said apertures, brackets riveted to said guard-plates and stirrup-bars and having bearings in their upper ends, a shaft mounted for rotation in said bearings and having rocker-arms upon its ends, rods connecting said rocker-arms with the free ends of said brake-levers, and means for forcibly rotating said shaft to apply said brake-shoes.

6. The combination of a car-truck frame having traclcwheels, guide-plates connected transversely of said truck-frame between said wheels and having longitudinal apertures HERBERT E. BROWN. MARCUS L. BROWN.

Witnesses:

G. W. ADAMs, J. L. FISHER. 

